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Originally Posted by AbelMN View Post
The concept of Free developers, 'doing their own thing' favours diversity and creativity and does (and did for the Tablets) result in new opportunities. It is however essential that an overarching common mission and defined common objectives guide everybody involved including the 'free developers'. Everybody should work towards the same -useful- direction. In this case 'useful' should be related to the end-user, the consumer. Somebody has to buy the stuff !
Maybe I'm just a paranoid ESR-style bazaar-boosting radical, but when people start talking about defining overarching common missions, I do get a little nervous; something about that makes me think of GNU. And HURD, which should be done any day now...

I'd rather tablet development didn't go down that path.

Originally Posted by tso View Post
There is always those that use winamp or a small group that swear to foobar2000. But yes, most go for the two big ones...
Bah, can't stand WMP; never really tried iTunes, but don't like what I've seen. I've used winamp classic and foobar2k, and they're both good; but I think a lot of people use the bloated trash that is winamp non-classic (whatever it is they call it).

Oh well, I guess it just shows we don't need a good media player to make 90% of endusers happy.
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